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Jeanette Jo Epps is an American aerospace engineer and retired NASA astronaut. Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, where she was pa
Official portrait, December 2023
Jeanette Epps (right) speaking on a panel at Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million Black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban North
Jeanette Epps
…was born in Syracuse, New York, one of seven children born to Henry and Luberta (née Jackson) Epps, Mississippians who moved to Syracuse as part of the Great Migration. She and her twin sister Janet excelled in math and science. She graduated from Corcoran High School in Syracuse and earned a B.S. degree in physics…
The Arthur family arrived at Chicago's Polk Street Depot on August 30, 1920, during the Great Migration.
African-American youths play basketball in Chicago's Stateway Gardens high-rise housing project in 1973.
The Hub is the retail heart of the South Bronx, New York City.
White tenants seeking to prevent Black people from moving into the Sojourner Truth Project in Detroit erected this sign, 1942